Economics Department

The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme supports graduate study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is open to applicants pursuing eligible master’s and other graduate programmes, including Advanced Computer Science, Public Policy, Economics for Development, Global Health Science and Epidemiology, and Environmental Change and Policy. The programme combines postgraduate academic study with leadership development, mentoring, and networking. Its eligible fiel...

[Four fully funded scholarships are available: two departmental studentships, one school studentship, and one SENSS scholarship through the SENSS Doctoral Training Partnership. Each covers full student fees, a generous stipend, and research expenses across the first three years of study. Applicants who do not secure a full scholarship may be considered for a partial studentship including a full tuition fee waiver (covering UK and international fees) for three years, paid teaching experience of u...

Where Waste Goes — The Political Economy of Informal Disposal is an interdisciplinary PhD project at Queen Mary University of London, within the Leverhulme Living with Waste Doctoral Programme and Queen Mary Business School. The research investigates informal waste disposal and environmental inequality by bringing together machine learning, artificial intelligence, satellite imagery, development economics, and political economy. The doctoral researcher will explore how remote sensing and AI can ...

School of Economics Knoop Scholarship at the University of Sheffield , United Kingdom. This is a PhD research project scholarship in Economics , aimed at students worldwide who want to develop a proposed project with strong academic significance and a clear fit with the School’s research interests. Supervisor / contact mentioned: Dr Emily Whitehouse (School of Education listing shown on the post page). Funding: The post describes the opportunity as funded, but the excerpt does not provide the st...

The Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics is sharing an opportunity for PhD students on the 2027-28 job market through the Weiss Fellowship for Junior Researchers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. This fellowship provides supplementary financial support to junior researchers building research careers while based in low- and middle-income countries. The post highlights two tracks: Assistant Professor positions and Postdoc / research-based roles. Relevant academic areas include devel...